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Ray Donovan‘s Katherine Moennig is set for a key recurring role on the second season of Freeform’s hit comedy series grown-ish.
Moennig plays Professor Paige Hewson, a CalU Gender Studies teacher who instructs a class in which Zoey (Yara Shahidi) and her friends are enrolled. Professor Hewson is openly lesbian…

To kick off season two of grown-ish, Freeform has partnered with scholarship app Scholly on a program that will pay off up to $125,000 in student loan debt.
The program is aimed at current students and graduates with an outstanding loan balance and is intended to help student loan borrowers pay off debts that may be…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has pre-emptively acquired The Guysmaids, a comedy spec script written by Danny Segal and Isaac Schamis, and produced by Kenya Barris.
Specifics about the storyline are being kept under wraps. Barriswill produce the feature through his production company, Khalabo Ink Society, as part of…

In an effort to encourage young voters to use their voice and vote, Freeform has partnered with ATTN: for the “March to the Polls” campaign which includes actors from shows such as grown-ishand the forthcoming Fosters spinoff Good Trouble.
The PSA campaign includes Freeform talent Maia Mitchell, Cierra Ramirez, Deon C…

Jenifer Rice-Genzuk Henry, executive producer on Freeform’s breakout comedy series Grown-ish, has signed an overall deal with ABC Studios whose cable/streaming division, ABC Signature, produces the Black-ish spinoff.
Under the pact, she will be developing new series projects while continuing her duties on Grown-ish.…

Becoming a household name as the privileged, popular and highly intelligent Zoey Johnson in ABC’s critically-acclaimed comedy Black-ish—a role she booked only a few short years ago—Yara Shahidi was challenged recently to step to center stage for Freeform spin-off Grown-ish, a series that sees the Johnson’s eldest…

After more than 80 episodes with her Black-ish family, Yara Shahidi’s Zoey Johnson is all grown up and making her way through college in Kenya Barris’ Freeform series Grown-ish. For Shahidi, learning of the opportunity to lead her own spinoff series “was very art imitating life imitating art.”
“I get a call, and I'd…

Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi teased Season 2 of Freeform’s Black-ish spinoff series today at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys, and reflected on her transition from the show’s mothership Black-ish.
“I know little to nothing about Season 2. What I can say is I'm really looking forward to Zoey actually going to class,&#8221…

Freeform has given an early renewal to breakout new comedy Grown-ish four episodes into its freshman run. The spinoff of ABC’s praised comedy Black-ish has received a 20-episode second season order.
Grown-ish has been both a ratings and critical success for Freeform. It premiered January 3 as Freeform’s highest-rated…

The new year is kicking off with a flurry of new shows and seasons, but few will be as good in the early part of 2018 as Freeform’s January 3-debuting Grown-ish. A spinoff of ABC's Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Black-ish, the 13-episode college-set series led by Yara Shahidi is both funny and…

Abraham D. Juste has joined the cast of Grown-ish in a recurring role. He'll play Cassius "Cash" Mooney, the top-ranked shooting guard in the nation with a megawatt smile and a freshman at California University with Zoey (Yara Shahidi).
Freeform’s spinoff from ABC's Black-ish, which hails from that series' executive…